Google - ‘Personalize Your Homepage’
July 5, 2006Personal homepages seem to be a common theme on the web atm, I have had a play with pageflakes, My Yahoo! and more recently Google. So why would I want a personal homepage, these are the reasons on the Google website:
Your personalized homepage brings together Google functionality and content from across the web, on a single page:
- Preview latest Google Mail messages
- See headlines from Google News and other top news sources
- Get weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie showtimes
- Select from a variety of popular feeds
- Drag and drop the sections to rearrange the page.
You can also add your favourite rss feeds from any website/blog. Are there any educational uses for this kind of application?
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DaleIn the context of the previous post on Internet Safety, it might be interesting to consider online desktops as a means to harvest data. The things that people put onto their desktops would seem to be an indicator of personal preferences, and this data could easily be used by such as Google to build profiles for direct marketing.
And yes, I am paranoid…
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